Library News

Our CE recently emailed to the staff regarding a UK university library that was throwing out rare books much to the anger of students and booklovers. Hopely such an incident never happens in NLB!

University library dumps rare books (news article from Guardian Unlimited on 18/6/05)

In his satire about a library, The Battle of the Books, Jonathan Swift recounts that "a restless spirit haunts over every book till dust or worms have seized upon it."

Followup to the main story, A new chapter for unwanted books (on 20/6/05)